Ted Cruz Goes After ‘Woke’ Microsoft Over Xbox Power Saving Settings Update
from the woke-on-LAN dept
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you will be familiar with the concept of the anti-“woke” culture war the Republican Party grows and farms for its own purposes. This isn’t to say there aren’t real cultural conflicts we need to work out as a country, but that doesn’t change the simple fact that much of what you hear about in the press is specifically cultivated by one party or another to generate headlines and outrage for the purposes of votes and campaign contributions.
And if you’re looking for an avatar for this sort of un-principled outrage manufacturing, Ted Cruz would be one of the first names I would bring up. Cruz claims to be a strict constitutionalist, while also threatening companies for exercising their free speech rights. In most of the cases, Cruz is railing against “the woke” in favor of shit-peddling lie-factories like OAN, claiming that a company choosing what to do within its own private purview is somehow “censorship” in favor of “wokeism.”
And it gets really dumb at times. You may have heard recently that the GOP was out there claiming that the White House was going to be coming to collect not your guns (this time), but your gas-powered ovens/stoves. It wasn’t really true. What actually happened was a consumer safety group within the government pointed out that there were a lot of health risks with these ovens and that the group might seek to lower future production of them in favor of safer electric ovens. No jackbooted thugs were going to go house to house and haul away your grandmother’s gas stove.
But then came Cruz also going after Microsoft. Why Microsoft? Well, because Microsoft had embraced wokeism, according to Cruz, by updating its standard Xbox power settings to be more power efficient. Yes. Yes, really.
Here’s what Microsoft’s Xbox update actually does: It will cut down on power usage by up to a factor of 20 by changing the default setting of Xbox consoles from “sleep” to “shut down.” Microsoft promises this update won’t affect performance or gameplay, nor the ability to update the Xbox overnight. The main side effect is it will take a bit longer for the console to boot. The new firmware will also be “carbon aware” and try to time its downloads and updates for periods when it will have the least impact on the electrical grid. And if for some reason you don’t like these changes, everything can be switched back to how it was previously.
Innocuous. Good, even. But after Cruz’s tweet picked up The Blaze’s narrative it set off a wave of stories from Fox News and the like. According to them, not only was Xbox “going woke” by making these environmentally friendly changes, but Fox and Friends hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Jimmy Failla suggested Microsoft was “trying to recruit your kids into climate politics.”
The open question appears to be: if this is wokeism, which it’s not, then that doesn’t explain what in the world is wrong with any of this. What, specifically, is Cruz objecting to here? The end customer is barely going to notice any difference other than a slightly longer boot time. The only other differences he or she might notice is a lower electricity bill, a longer-lasting Xbox console, and maybe the air outside is just a little bit less polluted. Where is there a problem to rail against here?
But the idea behind a manufactured culture war is to make good use of the echo chamber, which is exactly what happened next.
“But again, what’s the point of video games? It’s for kids to be kids,” Faila suggested in a Tuesday Fox and Friends segment about Microsoft’s Xbox plans. “Now you sit down and pick up a controller and they’re like ‘by the way, the world is on fire, AHH.’ You know what I mean? You just want to play the game!”
And you can. That hasn’t changed. The console doesn’t tell you “the world is on fire.” The console doesn’t open to a splash screen requiring you to donate to Black Lives Matter before you start your game. It just… you know… starts up and plays your game.
So please, whatever your political leanings, don’t fall for this stuff. Cruz knows better, but he’s trying to take advantage of you. Don’t let him.
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[Cruz] ass-sphincter-says-woke.
I say, kudos to Microsoft! It’s a dirty job, but someone had to do it. Starting with the kids is always a good idea; prepare the next generation for what they’re going to inherit. Hopefully the current generation of power-monging asshelmets will have died off in time for the next generation to get things right.
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I get it, you hate conservatives, that isn’t very interesting. Maybe getting upset about xbox sleep cycles is a little dumb (increased boot times suck tho) but what really strikes me about this:
Well yes, it was, actually. CSPC is a (too) powerful agency, and they really were beginning the ramp to start discussing banning gas stoves. Talking about the possibility and “a need to study” is how that process starts. And yes they were going to ban future stoves not confiscate current ones but so what? That isn’t better. And all this is not the CSPC going off on it’s own it’s at the direction of administration higher-ups who really are doing it cuz they hate fossil fuels, nothing to do with indoor particulates.
Fortunately the idea was laughed out of town and they quickly did a 180 but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It most certainly did. NYC and LA are STILL planning on banning gas lines in new buildings, which has a lot of pro chefs in an uproar.
There aren’t tho. That simply isn’t true at all. The whole thing was pinned on a couple of very questionable studies by an activist enviro group. In reality there are dozens of much more reputable studies saying the risk of gas stoves is almost nothing, and what risk there is best solved by making sure you have a proper vent. (one of the suspect studies was essentially conducted in a sealed room, and a small one at that) Apparently scented candles cause way more asthma risk (still almost nothing, tho).
None of the suppsoed risks were true, despite hyperbolic media reports on it, but the movement to start banning them sure was.
I get it, you hate conservatives. I hate your ideas, you’re a fucking idiot (way worse than Masnick, and man, that’s saying something), delete your account.
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Backhanded justification
Unsupported claim
Overbearing gov’t boogey man
Slippery slope pearl clutching.
Biden’s fault.
Unsupported claim.
Ad homs when party line isn’t toed. Surprised you didn’t add socialist here.
Ad homs on article author.
I think I won conservative troll bingo. What’s my prize?
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“You are a terrible person, therefore you are wrong” is ad hominem. “You are wrong, therefore you are a terrible person” is not ad hominem.
Tangent: I’d speculate that Matthew Bennett sees every environmentalist group as “activists” (“activists” can never be trusted) and every agency not helmed by Republicans as “too powerful”, but again, that’s just speculation.
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Anything involving “you are a terrible person” is, in fact, an ad hominem. It’s an attack on a person’s character, which is the very definition of ad hominem.
This isn’t difficult to understand.
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…said nobody literate, ever.
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No, it’s when you attack a person’s character instead of their argument. If a person puts forth an argument that’s racist or dishonest for example, that person’s character is terrible. If you go with what you say, if a pedophile argues that it’s just fine to molest children we could never call his character into question.
TL;DR: An argument reflects a person’s character, calling a terrible person a terrible person isn’t an ad hominem.
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It isn’t better? And would you rather the government never study anything? Never comment on any studies relevant to respective agencies? Fewer studies = stupider bans.
“Laughed out of town” is, at best, a dubious way to put it. More like alarmed backlash, not that that’s a bad thing.
I can get your doubts about the supposed consumer health concerns. But it’s not as if the greenhouse gas emissions go away if you close your eyes.
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YOU FIRST, TERRORIST.
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And yet, here you are.
Re: Matthew Bennett went and did it
Smart money says good ol’ Matt spent $65K on a F-150 then complains about the price of gas.
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Well, before Biden gas prices in many places were under $3.00 for 89o
After Biden prices were over $6
You didn’t help the anti-idiot argument on that.
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Sorry, are you referring to the pandemic that led to a crash in the market where crude oil was priced at a negative sum being cheaper than when people were using it again?
I mean, I know you have to be very stupid to believe that the US president directly influences the price at the pump, but I just need to confirm you’re assigning the effect of a worldwide pandemic that killed US citizens in a vastly disproportionate way as a positive.
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“I get it, you hate conservatives”
Mainly paranoid idiots who participate in culture war nonsense designed to detract from real issues, and often vote against their own interests because “stiggin it” is more important than actually improving society.
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Yes. You’re the reason why we can’t smoke drugs, wear thongs and be fabulous in public.
But the tide is turning, and the pendulum swinging in the other direction. You’re going to get fucked, Matthew, and not in the fabulous way either.
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That’s your takeaway? Dude, the point is that, by any reasonable measure, Ted Cruz was making a mountain out of a molehill.
Taking away future stoves that don’t yet exist is both better and absolutely not the same as taking away a stove you actually own.
Also, I have yet to see any evidence that the CSPC is a powerful agency, but whatever.
It means the idea was mischaracterized and was cancelled because of (at least partly) misguided outrage.
Prove it.
More importantly, you keep talking about the gas stoves thing, but do you not realize that that was just an aside? The focus of the article was on Ted Cruz’s comments about Microsoft and Xbox. Do you have anything to say on that?
As good a time as any to trot out Al Franken’s description of Ted Cruz:
And:
It’s nothing but a grievance war paid for by the grift. If they are not constantly playing the victim, there is nothing to feed their grift.
People like Cruz rely on the Chozens and Kobys and Bennetts because they are the kind of people who are stupid enough to believe the grift and just eat it up. They will gladly give up their hard earned money as long as they believe that people like Cruze are winning the culture wars by “owning the libs”
If gives them their “raison d’être” because they are too fucking stupid to know any better.
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What I find the most interesting about this comment is that the group of usual trolls who were name checked, have not come here to deny it.
The enemy of Ted
I had a bit of a hatred towards Microsoft. Now that Ted Kaczynski, I mean Cruz,hates them, I think perhaps I was a bit hasty in my judgement.
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There is no reason horrible people can not also hate each other.
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Now, now, there’s no reason to slander the Unabomber. It’s well established that Cruz was Zodiac 😉
Re: Re: To quote J. Jonah Jameson…
“Slander is spoken. In print, it’s libel.”
That’s why Techdirt uses the term “defamation” rather than “slander” or “libel” because it covers them both.
“Cruz knows better…”
Hanlon’s razor.
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And I thought it was only Rick Santorum who should be electroshocked for his own good…
Turns out a lot more people need to be electroshocked for their own good too. Like Ted Cruz.
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Sounds like a waste of good voltage to me.
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Normally I’d agree, but I was using a line from Lewis Black.
You don’t try to treat the delusions of the brownshirts.
I’m trying to figure out which reaction is more ridiculous: Ted Cruz saying Microsoft is going “Woke” because they added more power saving functionality to their console like it’s a bad thing or people saying Mr. Beast is evil for paying for 1,000 surgeries to cure people of their blindness. These last few days have really been draining my supply of “I can’t even”s.
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And in my part of the world. where I got a torn retina last Monday, I got a consultation 2 days later, got eye-surgery the next day and was home on Friday. For that I didn’t pay anything and all my medication and travel expenses was covered plus paid sick-leave. No extra insurance needed.
If I lived in the US the above would have cost me thousands of dollars. Kudus to Mr Beast for what he did but it’s just a drop in a very sick health-ocean representing the US healthcare system.
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Meanwhile, I’m on Medicaid in a blue state and I actually have it better than most of my fellow citizens (and in some cases like Dental I even have it better than Canadians and Europeans).
The catch is I can’t have more than $2000 in my bank account, though.
Sounds like just the sort of thing I’d expect the Zodiac Killer to say…
Given Cruz’ ridiculous views on climate change, it’s no wonder he thinks that doing something good for the climate is “woke”.
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Applying some simple logic: who is going to lose when game-computers use less energy if they’re unused?
Right, the (fossil) energy sector.
Would it be fair to see that as yet another indication that Ted is in the back pocket of the energy industry?
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He’s a Texas republican, that’s pretty much a given.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz.
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Sam I Am.
In the long run (but definitely not the short run) I can only see this as good for Microsoft.
If we constantly have people stupidly crying wolf about the “bad thing Microsoft is doing” … eventually most people will ignore reports of “Microsoft is doing bad thing!”
If only the time scales on that were fast enough that Cruz would get himself ignored.
Ted Cruz
Wait! That’s… infringing on Microsofts free speech rights! After all,video games are art, and thus expression and thus speech.
Also, I thought he believed in the free market and the invisible hand?
As a third note, I say we ask republicans what about companies going British Colonial Capitalism? you know, monopolies, abusing workers , being given monopolies
by the government, trying to be all and everywhere? I mean, its in the american DNA to oppose it. Oh wait, they pay the GOP, so its okay…….. I think. I’m not a corkscrew thinking politician like Ted Cruz or George Santos.
P.S. Sorry, just got into a rant, but that’s okay. I mean, all the GOP do it, and we know they are never wrong, right?
P.S.S. Sarcasm that was.
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That’s hardly fair. It’s not like you could use their minds to pull corks from bottles…
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We can go further. By Matthew Bennett’s logic, mere government criticism without coercion is censorship. Therefore, Ted Cruz is censoring Microsoft.
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“I’m not a corkscrew thinking politician like Ted Cruz or George Santos.”
That’s unfair… Cruz is a very openly slimy politician who will abandon his voters at the slightest issue. Santos was a fictional character who some people were fooled into voting for.
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The power consumption of a PC in sleep mode is about 1-2 watts / hour, this is because transistors only use electricity when they are changing state, and there is very little parasitic losses.
where I am power costs approximately 6.8 cents per kilowatt hour, and of course that 1-2 watts is also converted to heat, which during the winter is going to be used anyways.
In contrast the resources spent waiting, is often going to be more than the resources spent with the computer in sleep mode, but I’m sure there is some regulation that incentivized microsoft to make this decision, and they just care about “greenwashing” the company.
of course the Author is probably a professional journalist, and not an engineer by trade, so he is probably just projecting his political insecurities rather than any factual analysis of the economics.
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Interesting, sir. Where do you come up with those numbers?
A random website tells me that “Instant on” can have perhaps 20x the power consumption of “Shutdown Mode”. Since it lists Shutdown Mode as 0.5 watts, that would make Instant On be 10 watts.
A different website tells me that “instant on” uses 15 watts.
So I’m really curious where you get you “1-2 watt” figure for “instant on”.
And perhaps you can educate us also on how much more efficient the waste heat from an xbox is than, say, a heat pump home heating unit.
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Sony itself (not a random website) says 0.4W for shutdown and 10W for sleep. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/power/learn-about-power-modes
Waste heat is 1:1 with power used.
However, what you really care about is power used over time so kWh, not kW or even W.
Xbox: 0.1kWh
LED “60W equiv”: 0.1kWh
Heat Pump: (various sizes, options but let’s go low) 1-2kWh
So in one twenty seconds of running a heat pump (ignoring inrush current) you use up more power than 1hr of Xbox. You could keep your Xbox in standby for 24 hours and use less power than 2 minutes of heat pump.
You might as well ask what the inefficiency is of converting from AC on the home EV charger to DC. It’s about 60-85% efficient (model, type, and voltages dependent) so 15-40% are lost to heat.
Screw the Xbox mods. Don’t charge your EV and don’t turn on the HVAC.
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“Power used” is actually the relevant measure. “Power used over time” is nonsensical in context.
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While it’s true that all corps will try to greenwash one way or another (usually through buying carbon credits, ie, the environmental equivalent of a fucking indulgence), the way MS is going about it is a bit more ethical.
Besides, I used to just turn off my damn console when I wasn’t playing it. I mean, it’d just be a return to the old days, no big loss here.
“Get out and touch some grass” from the former villains of the tech industry (yes, that Microsoft) is still a hilarious and somewhat wholesome message, no matter how you slice it, unless you’re backing/defending Big Oil.
OH WAIT…
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“of course the Author is probably a professional journalist, and not an engineer by trade, so he is probably just projecting his political insecurities rather than any factual analysis of the economics.”
Are you claiming to be knowledgeable in the field of engineering? Because an engineer would research their claims prior to posting text.
“this is because transistors only use electricity when they are changing state”
This statement is incorrect, and you would know such if you were educated in the field of electrical engineering.
There are many types of transistors, which one(s) are/were you referring to? There are many uses of transistors in circuitry, including that of power supplies, what type(s) of circuitry are you referring to?
“In contrast the resources spent waiting, is often going to be more than the resources spent with the computer in sleep mode”
Please explain what you are talking about here as it is not clear. Some might guess that your sleep mode is a waiting mode. I have not heard of a waiting mode, but ok, perhaps that is the pause button? idk.
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Waiting for user input, perhaps? In general, because people are slow and clunky, computers spend a whole lot more time waiting for people do do things than they actually do doing things.
Look at how much time you spend, for example, reading a Techdirt article vs. how much time your computer requires to render it.
Ironically gaming consoles probably tend towards higher activity cycles than standard PCs just because gaming tends towards longer stretches of continuous activity both on the user’s behalf and on whatever continuous processes a game may need to be running whether or not the user is providing direct input or not.
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Why are you talking about PCs when the article is talking about a console?
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Maybe because a console is just a PC in a fancy case?
The similarities are greater than the differences
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In some ways, in some ways not. If people wish to compare facts, they should present them in full.
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AFAIAC, A video game console is a PC for a specific purpose and is locked down, and I have a broad, liberal definition of it. For instance, I consider the iPhone and iPad to be video game consoles because Apple is the gatekeeper of Apps on their app store and you can’t program for it unless you have a relationship with Apple. It’s also why I consider the Steam Deck to be a portable gaming PC rather than a video game console because you can install windows as well as repair and modify it with Valve’s blessing.
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A PC in general draws about 10-12 Watts in sleep mode and 1-2 Watts when hibernating. Parasitic draw (and leakage) is also present in every component used, not just transistors, since there are no perfect components.
According to official documentation, an XBox draws 13-15 watts in standby and there are tens of millions of XBox’s sold, that will amount to savings in the MW/h-range.
Your post indicates you think you are an engineer – but not one I would ever employ because you fail to take into consideration a lot of things to make some bad faith arguments. Engineers deals with reality, you don’t.
Re: The horror!
God forbid self-interested companies’ incidentally taking baby steps in favor of the environment.
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Watts/hr? A watt is already energy per time. Serious engineering chops my friend. 🙄
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“Watts/hr? A watt is already energy per time. Serious engineering chops my friend. 🙄”
Electricity use over time is measured in Watthours
A Watthour (Wh) is equal to the energy of one Watt steadily supplied to, or taken from, an electric circuit for one hour.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/measuring-electricity.php
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That’s correct, although more generally kWh because a watt-hour is pretty tiny, but, and importantly, what was written was not watt-hour but watts/hour, which is nonsensical in this context.
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Well, correct-ish.
“Energy use over time” is not measured in watt-hours. It’s measured in watts. You could measure in kWh/year if you’re talking about large amounts or long times (f’rexample if you were looking at a yearly electricity bill), but that converts without change of dimension into watts.
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From where does your electrical power knowledge originate?
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In this particular case, high school physics suffices.
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Assuming high school physics is taught
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Not correct.
A watt of power is nothing more than (V * i) (yes, it is more complex than just that, but this is the easiest way to describe it.) The “watt” unit has no time component to it.
A watt / hour does have the time component and is the number of watts used in a 60 minute time span. Hence the time component.
So yes, energy use over time is measured in watt-hours. The watt is just the measurement of power at a specific instance in time.
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I’m afraid you are mistaken.
A watt, by definition, is a unit of power (J/s), which is energy (measured in joules) over time (measured in seconds). That’s why you need to multiply it through by time in order to get an energy value (eg. a kWh, which is 3.6 MJ).
Assuming you’re using standard notation, yes, electrical power is also given by voltage multiplied by current. But you need to take a look at what those units mean. In particular, a volt is defined as 1 joule per coulomb (it is the unit of specific electrical potential energy), and an ampere is defined as 1 coulomb per second (it is the unit of charge flow, or, in other words, current). If you multiply 1 J/C by 1 C/s, you get 1 J/s — or 1 W.
“A watt / hour does have the time component and is the number of watts used in a 60 minute time span. Hence the time component.
So yes, energy use over time is measured in watt-hours. ”
A watt/hour is not a watt-hour. They mean very different things, and both of the definitions you provide are incorrect. A watt-hour would, for example, remove the time component. It is strictly a unit of energy, not of rate of change; it is dimensionlessly convertible to joules and equals precisely 3600J. A watt/hour, on the other hand, is the rate of change of power (which is, itself, the rate of change of energy); it is dimensionlessly convertible to J/s/s.
You may want to consider this by analogy to the better known distance units: Metres are a distance unit. The rate of change of that is speed, which is measured in metres per second. The rate of change of that is acceleration, which is measured in metres per second squared. Energy, power, and the rate of change in power are related in precisely the same way, and their units are joules, joules per second, and joules per second square — and a joule per second is a watt.
What you have said is the equivalent of saying a mile-per-hour-hour is how you measure speed, and a mile per hour per hour is the number of miles per hour you use in an hour. Do you see how little sense that makes?
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A watt is definitionally energy per unit time. Like it is specifically defined as one joule per one second.
Current is defined as charge per unit time; an ampere is specifically defined as one coulomb per one second. That’s where the time comes in in the electrical power definition, but I want you to understand this because I think you may be an American and therefore unfamiliar with the SI:
A watt is not specifically a unit of electrical power. It is applicable to any change in energy, in any system. You can measure the power output of a car in watts, for example, just as you would in “horse-power”.
Waste of good oxygen
After both his wife and father were publicly insulted by Trump, what did he do? He went and phone-banked for him. What a bootlicking doormat.
Ted Cruz, beta male. He has no shame. And apparently no balls.
If anything, it is antiwoke
Instead of educating people about how to save power, now people explicitly need to educate themselves about how not to save power.
That’s preventing the need for education. You could say that it is treating consumers as immature, but the point is that consumers are immature. Any default setup is going to persist in 90% of all cases because people are too lazy to do anything about a setup that the manufacturer hands them.
That’s why offering energy saving bulbs as an option did not work. The one thing that would have worked is if people did not pay providers for electricity and oil but for light and warmth. That would make energy-saving work into the pockets of large companies instead of individuals, and we’d be in a completely different place.
Cruz is essentially both saying that people are too lazy to educate themselves (correct, unfortunately), and that the default for lazy people should be to be as environment unfriendly as possible.
It’s really shameful that idiots like that are elected representatives of the people, with “representative” meaning “reflecting average stupidity, greed and laziness” rather than “representing the best interests of their electorate”.
Another Opinion
From the “IT Guy” side of me, I am happy to see M$ stepping up to reduce the power requirements of their device – these things are just specialized computers that (generally) stay on all the time.
The “Ted” side of me wants to mention that most of the other evil Teds at least had the decency to stay out of politics.
When did waste become a conservative value?
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The point when being paid corporate money for shittalking efforts to fight global climate change became too good a proposition to pass up.
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Leaders know that people support things that they create. Since power conservation was not created by the right, they are against it. Which does actually make sense since the right wing has not been conservative for a long time, in fiscal, social, or energy matters.
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After becoming conservative representatives.
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They can only get non English speakers to spew trash.
We’re supposed to laugh that all of the contributions to 401k’s and Roths went to creating inferior food and inferior services, instead of individual investors choosing modern options.
Thats what you get. Three-titted monstrosities and their deformed offspring. They can only mix with trash.
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That is news. All the retirement accounts were invested in companies that outsourced their and kids futures while also shilling inferior food and services chasinginferior integers.
Thats a more interesting dataset than politics.
Those people are going to be pissed since the data is clear as day. They used their retirement accounts against them.
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Big data already figured this out.
You’re supposed to laugh at all of the flimflam diversions about nothing that they create for the rabid uneducated folks (like this article), leaving them chasing their tails every time.
Know you know. No-name brand investing has already gone out of style.
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The only time I saw anything with three mammary glands was in Total Recall. Both of them, in fact.
It’s funny to see these guy rally to the defence of the “simple childlike joy of gaming” one second then flip to manufactured hysteria about gaming turning kids into monsters or corrupting them the next.
The console doesn’t tell you “the world is on fire.”
Is there a console that will tell me what is on fire? Because the stupid… it burns!
Could be pants. Need an extinguisher.
'You care about anything but yourself? How woke of you.'
Having to wait several seconds more between pushing a button and being able to play a game because the console has been tweaked in an attempt to save power is ‘woke’?
The more I see that word used the more I understand it’s true meaning to be ‘Not a whiny asshole.’
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Oh nyoooooo
I have to… TURN OFF MY CONSOLE, JUST LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS!
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But at least in the old days everything was ROM based, once you plugged in a cart and powered up, it was instantly on… no waiting to boot.
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In the old days, you got a tape/disk/cartridge that had the full game on it that would never change.
Today, you might turn on your console to be faced with an 8Gb update to the game you want to play before you’re able to launch it, for whatever reason.
You still have the option to completely turn everything off as you did in the old days, you might just wish you had allowed it to “wake” when the download was available instead of waiting.
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Ah yes, I forgot my sarc mark.
When will start ignoring Republican nonsense
The Atlantic recently had a good article about how Republicans are basing their entire political platform on this kind of performative outrage, instead of actually doing something productive.
Yet you never hear about how Democrats are rallying together to “own the conservatives”.
The article also says this is how Republicans will continue to lose elections. It also asks why voters don’t rise up and demand more of their politicians.
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We do demand more. But the party of politicians willing to actually govern is often hamstrung by the presence of the party that wants to whine about how the world they were born into no longer exists.
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Only the 73+ million who keep putting these treasonous fucks in will not question it.
The rest of the States, though, I think they demand the bare minimum of pretense to govern, and even the Republican Party can’t deliver.
As the outsider whose country is continuing to get plowed by American schizophrenia, I hope the sane half votes for someone seemingly competent to at least unfuck the political quagmire the US is in right now.
Key issue
This would be good as long as Microsoft makes it very clear to every owner the system has changed the default; and how to change it back.
That way those that prefer power and performance over, whatever it pretends is going to change, can have their quality fast boots again.
This isn’t woke, it’s pandering. Woke is sony censoring games to the point they can’t be completed.
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